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2 NEWS New ITC building celebrated Q&A ON THE RECENTLY OPENED ITC BUILDING WITH MIKE MATTSON, DEPARTMENT CHAIR OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY Editorial Q: Can you tell me a little about the new building? Editor-in-Chief Victoria Durling A: W ell, th e ITC is the Industrial Technology C en ter. T h is b u ild in g w ill h o u se o u r tw o chiefed@clackamas.edu m ach in in g program s. So, it’ll h ou se w h a t’ s called m anufacturing technology, w h ic h is a m achine tool program , so it’s training people Managing Editor Jared Preble to b e m achinists. It’ll also house w h a t w e call com puter aided m anufacturing and com puter maned@clackamas.edu Arts & Culture Editor Ian Van Orden aided manufacturing, also a m achining degree. It also co n ta in s a n u m b e r o f C A D c la sses, in d u strial electro n ics an d au tom atio n . So, it ’ s m o re fo r th e p erso n w h o is in tere sted .in th e au tom atio n, h ig h p rodu ction side o f aced@clackamas.edu Sports Editor m anufacturing, so th ey’ll le am about robotics for example. So those are two different degrees. It also is the renewable energy program and the Jacob Thompson industrial m aintenance technology, w h ich is sportsed@clackamas.edu so closely related to that. Q: What has the building offered that was not previously available? f, students and community on Oct 5. A : W e ll, e v e r y th in g is s till av aila b le. Program m atically, noth in gs really changed. Q: What are the benefitsofamanufacturing degree? I’m gom g to leam this and thenl’m goingtogo get aren’t as popular as they were a generation ago. a job. Apprenticeships have their place, but they really unsuitable environm ent, a very crowded, A: A student can leave in a very short period old, unsuitable environm ent, that w as scabbed o f tim e, they can com e in here and certainly in Q: Between going into school and takingthe togetheroutofthatw ingofB arlow H allthatw as one or two term s they can get enough skills to entry-level classes and working your way up b u ilt4o som eyears ago as a diesel lab. Over the get an entry level job, a $ i4 o r$ i5 an hour job. If or taking an apprenticeship, what would you years it ’ s been scabbed together to be a m achine they w ant to spend two years here and actually suggest for somebody who is just starting out? shop, a w elding shop, the print shop used to be leam to be a machinist, now you’re looking at A: It just depends on your life circumstances. over there. The second story w a sn ’t even over beginning wages closer to $20 an hour. W ith a Ideally you would k n ow w hatyp u’re going to do there. It w as put in as an addition. It w as never few years’ experience you can start pushing out w h en you’re getting out o f high school. I k n e w . suitable as.a m achineshop.Tt w as crowded, old, over $30 an hour. N ow you’re talking about real w h at I w as going to do before I got out o f high dirty, so w ew en tfro m ab outi3 ,ooo square-feet m oney, the kind o f m oney you can raise a fam ily school. I knew our fam ily didn’t have m oney to in Barlow Hall to about 43,000 square-feet. It’s on. You can’t do that on $15 an hour. send m e to college. I knew I w as going to have significant. Q: Are apprenticeship programs still an W ew ere sharingthreedifferentbuildings on alternative? A: W ell, y ou ’ll see apprenticeships m ore in in on e spot. T hat really m ak es life easier on the construction trades. So, there’s two licensed w ith the m etal working side and so I prepared students and instructors. That also helped US trades in O regon w h ere you have to serve an m yself to be able to get a job right out o f high consolidate the IndustrialMaintenance Program ap p ren ticesh ip . T h a t’ s an electrician and school. Ideally ayoungperson would know that w hich is kind o f a new, burgeoning program, as plumber. Everything else is hit or miss. There’s and be able to do it today. W e see it less and less they share about 70 percent o f the sam e classes som e carpentry apprenticeships and there aré all the time. and the tools and the labs. som e steam fitter apprentices. Com panies can So, if you’re a young person graduating from high school and you can take classes before you The bond also allowed us to upgrade our old form their o w n apprenticeship. For exam ple, equipm ent. W e g ot rid o f ev ery single p iece Boeing has several apprenticeships. They have graduate high school or soon thereafter, every o f our com puter-controlled equipm ent. The one in m achining, as for electricians they have year you w ork after that you’re going to m ake old est pieces w ere 28 years old. T he n ew est one for industrial maintenance, blit it’s kind o f m ore than som ebody w ith just a high school piece o f CNC equipm ent w e had w as u y e a rs old. hit or m iss w ith the apprenticeships. diploma. That’s the ideal w a y to do it. I also tell Everything else w as kind o f in betw een there: You don’t see too m any in m achining. There students thatyour life will get more complicated. 15,20 years old and it w as getting outdated fast. • are still som e com panies that still have them , It is never going to get easier, it’s only going to T he n ew m achin es are m u ch m ore capable. like Boeing has a big one, and Leatherman tool get harder. W h e n y o u ’re tryin g to attract stu d en ts to a group hasadyemaintenanceapprenticeship. But So, g o to sch o o l w h ile yo u r life is d ess p rogram and y o u ’re tellin g th e m how_ h ig h those are m ore rare. I guess the problem I have complicated. Before you have a family, before tech it is and th e y w a lk in and th e y see this withapprénticeships is thatyou have to have the jobbeforeyoucangetintothetraining.Itdoesn’t you havea mortgage, beforeyouhave parenting állow you to kind o f bootstrap yourself. Say hey Take care o f it soon. com puter controlled m achine that looks like it’s got vacuum tubes in it, it’s a pretty hard sell. 0/V THE COVER' C ^ristian c larke prepares a sandw ich at the C o u g a r C afe. Ph oto b y Jonathan V illagom ez. D esig n b y W illiam Fafris. Photo Editor Jonathan Villagomez photoed@clackamas.edu Multimedia Editor Summer Barraza weljeditor@clackamas.edu Design Editor WilliamFarris Designed@ciackamas.edu to w ork. I started three y ears ahead o f tim e preparing m yself. Hove woodworking and Hove m etalworking and I really started falling in love tw o different cam puses. N ow th ey are all here PRINT Photo by Jonathàrì Villagofnez BY LAN VAN ORDEN ARTS & C U L T U R E 'E D IT O R ^ W hat has changed is w e ’v e gone from just a CLACKAMAS to takecareof,because it’sjustgoingtoget harder. Staff Shawn Tapley Rachelle Pelffer Adviser Meiissa Jones Melissai@clackanias.edu The Clackamas Pfjnt aims to report the news in I n honest, .unbiased, and pro fessional manner. Content published in The Print is not screened or subject to censorship. The gackamas Print is free, but please take rinly one copy. Any person remov ingour papers in bulk will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. .Issue One mistakenly referred to the Revenge o f Chucky as CORRECTION: an upcoming movie. It is actually an attraction at Universal - Studio’s Halloween Horror Nights. October 17, 2018
